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1. A failure countermeasure support system for a mobile vehicle comprising: a data conversion means which acquires failure information for a mobile vehicle; maintenance databases in which are stored items of maintenance information related to maintenance for remedying failures which it is feared may occur with the mobile vehicle; a structured information database in which is stored structured information for referring to said items of maintenance information stored in said maintenance databases; a structured information search means which searches said structured information database on the basis of said failure information for said mobile vehicle which has been acquired, and extracts one or more structured information records related to said failure information; a display control means which outputs a list of said one or more structured information records extracted by said structured information search means; and a structured information extraction section which extracts said structured information from said maintenance information stored in said maintenance databases, and stores a plurality of said structured information records in said structured information database, wherein: in said list outputted by said display control means, link information is included to said maintenance information in said maintenance databases, corresponding to said one or more structured information records which are included in said list; said maintenance databases have a plurality of individual databases; said structured information database has a plurality of structured information tables which respectively correspond to said plurality of individual databases, and a plurality of text files; and a plurality of said structured information records are included in each of said plurality of structured information tables, and, in each of said structured information records, there is included identification information for one corresponding text file among said plurality of text files.
2. A failure countermeasure support system for a mobile vehicle, comprising: a data conversion means which acquires failure information for a mobile vehicle; maintenance databases in which are stored items of maintenance information related to maintenance for remedying failures which it is feared may occur with the mobile vehicle; a structured information database in which is stored structured information for referring to said items of maintenance information stored in said maintenance databases; a structured information search means which searches said structured information database on the basis of said failure information for said mobile vehicle which has been acquired, and extracts one or more structured information records related to said failure information; a display control means which outputs a list of said one or more structured information records extracted by said structured information search means; a past example database which stores past example information, relating to countermeasures which have been implemented in order to remedy a failure of said mobile vehicle which has occurred in the past, and which includes, at least, a device type, a model, a failure code, a device name, and a name of the phenomenon that occurred, related to the failure; and an individual database search means which searches said past example database, and extracts past example information which matches one or more among the device type, the model, the failure code, the device name, and the name of the phenomenon that has occurred, included in the failure information of said mobile vehicle that has been acquired, wherein in said list outputted by said display control means, link information is included to said maintenance information in said maintenance databases, corresponding to said one or more structured information records which are included in said list; and said display control means outputs said past example information related to the result of extraction by said individual database search means, in order of closeness of an operating time period included in said past example information to the operating time period included in said failure information for said mobile vehicle which has been acquired.
3. The failure countermeasure support system for a mobile vehicle according to claim 2 , wherein: said individual database search means: extracts, as one or more first candidate instances, items of said past example information for which the device type and model, or the device type, match the failure information for said mobile vehicle which has been acquired; makes decisions, for said one or more first candidate instances, as to whether or not a failure code matches the failure information of said mobile vehicle which has been acquired, and, if any one or more of them match, takes those of said one or more first candidate instances which match as one or more second candidate instances, while, if none match, taking said one or more first candidate instances just as they are as one or more second candidate instances; makes decisions, for said one or more second candidate instances, as to whether or not a device name matches the failure information of said mobile vehicle which has been acquired, and, if any one or more of them match, takes those of said one or more second candidate instances which match as one or more third candidate instances, while, if none match, taking said one or more second candidate instances just as they are as one or more third candidate instances; makes decisions, for said one or more third candidate instances, as to whether or not a name of the phenomenon that occurred matches the failure information of said mobile vehicle which has been acquired, and, if any one or more of them match, takes those of said one or more third candidate instances which match as one or more final candidate instances, while, if none match, taking said one or more third candidate instances just as they are as one or more final candidate instances; and outputs said one or more final candidate instances.
4. A failure countermeasure support system for a mobile vehicle, comprising: a data conversion means which acquires failure information for a mobile vehicle; maintenance databases in which are stored items of maintenance information related to maintenance for remedying failures which it is feared may occur with the mobile vehicle; a structured information database in which is stored structured information for referring to said items of maintenance information stored in said maintenance databases; a structured information search means which searches said structured information database on the basis of said failure information for said mobile vehicle which has been acquired, and extracts one or more structured information records related to said failure information; and a display control means which outputs a list of said one or more structured information records extracted by said structured information search means, wherein in said list outputted by said display control means, link information is included to said maintenance information in said maintenance databases, corresponding to said one or more structured information records which are included in said list; said failure information for said mobile vehicle is acquired by said data conversion means from a moving state management system of said mobile vehicle, said failure information including information specifying a water temperature or an oil temperature of said mobile vehicle; and when said water temperature or said oil temperature which is included in said failure information is an anomalous water temperature or an anomalous oil temperature, said individual database search means searches for past example information related to said water temperature or to said oil temperature from said past example database.
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January 29, 2013
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